Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Last month, the ACLU released a video featuring the police execution of Milton Hall, which occurred in 2012. Hall was a black, homeless, mentally ill man from Saginaw, Michigan. He was shot at 46 times and hit 14 times by eight white police officers for holding a pen knife in a parking lot. Police previously […]

Teens Charged with Hiring a Hit Man Hiring a hit man looks easy in the movies. But real life is nothing like Hollywood’s portrayal of reality, as two young Oakland County teens recently discovered, when they hired an undercover detective to perform a revenge killing on their behalf.

On Monday, November 10th, 18-year-old Tyrel Bredernitz, who is one of the three teens involved in the murder of MSU student, Dustyn Frolka, was sentenced to spend decades in prison by Clinton County Circuit Judge Randy Tahvonen. During an emotional plea hearing on September 8th, Bredernitz pled guilty to second-degree murder. At his sentencing, Judge […]

Jeremy Todd Rollins, the 37-year-old man from of White Pine who was arrested and held in Dayton, Ohio on felony charges pertaining to meth production, has officially withdrawn his guilty plea, and now all bets are off.

When the state of Michigan legalized marijuana, it was for the express purpose of getting a highly effective medicine into the hands of those who needed it most. But the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA) was also very specific about how this process was to take place. And in these turbulent times, when the state […]

A teenager from Jackson, and his girlfriend, are facing felony arson charges for setting fire to an occupied house, a crime that happens more often than people realize. According to Michigan State Police records, 18-year-old Damion Hopkins and his 14-year-old girlfriend apparently set fire to her parent’s home located in the 4000 block of Dancer […]

Lying to the police is a bad idea. But lying to make yourself look like the victim in a situation when in reality, you are anything but, will almost always turn out poorly for you. Much like it did for a man in Mt. Morris Township, who was founded bloodied and beaten in the street, […]

A Livingston County detective, Mark Klein, testified last week at a preliminary exam that a former murder suspect told him Sean Anthony Duke posted a suspicious comment on Facebook. The posting said, “What to do?? … 30K I have to spend.”

Court of Appeals says You can Still Draw Unemployment The Michigan Court of Appeals recently ruled that any employee fired for the legal use of medical marijuana would still be eligible to receive unemployment benefits. For those in favor of legally using marijuana, this would be considered another win in the ongoing legal battle between […]

Bevan Wilson, a 39-year-old man from Pittsfield Township, was recently found guilty by a jury of his peers in the Washtenaw County Trial Court for having fired a pistol at a snowplow driver last winter. But how did that come about, you may wonder? No one ever said being a snowplow driver was a dream […]